"The identification of the tomb discovered by the Portuguese as that of St Thomas has been thoroughly repudiated even by those scholars who are sympathetic to the Thomas legend. For example, Jesuit archeologist Fr H. Heras writes: 'Some early Portuguese writers have kept the details of the original account, and these details are quite enough for disclosing the untruthfulness of the discovery'. Another Christian scholar, T.K. Joseph, states with regard to the burial place of Thomas: 'I am fully convinced that it has never been in Mylapore. I have stated that many times'."
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H. Heras in Neill, Stephen. History of Christianity in India: The Beginning to AD 1707. 2004: Cambridge University Press, 2004., Joseph, T.K. Six St Thomases of South India: A Muslim Non-Martyr (Thawwama) Made Martyr After 1517 A.D. Bharatha Deepam Press, 1955. Quoted from Malhotra, R., NÄ«lakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
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